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Cursor Cloud Agents Explained: My Machines, Self-Hosted Pool, and How It All Works
Cursor quietly shipped one of its most significant infrastructure updates in March 2026: Cloud Agents. The feature itself is not entirely new β the concept of background agents running in isolat...
Cursor Cloud Agents: When Your AI Teammate Starts Filing Its Own PRs
The ceiling nobody talks about Local agents are fast to start. You open Cursor, describe the task, and the agent starts editing files. Feels like a superpower β until you try to run two agents at ...
How to Start a Feature With Superpowers: A Step-by-Step Guide
You've installed Superpowers. Now what? The good news: you don't need to learn any special commands or memorize a workflow. You just describe what you want to build β and Superpowers quietly takes...
Superpowers: The Agentic Skills Framework That Makes Claude Code Actually Think Before Coding
The Problem With Every AI Coding Agent Out of the Box You open Claude Code. You type "build me a user authentication system." And within seconds it's already writing UserController.cs β no questio...
How AI Can Make Logging Timesheets Actually Easy
If you've ever had to log timesheets at the end of a long workday, you know the feeling: you stare at a form, trying to remember exactly what you worked on, for how long, and under which project c...
Upgrading Ginbok CMS from Optimizely 12 to 13: A Step-by-Step Developer Guide
Optimizely CMS 13 is currently available as a developer preview. It introduces a more composable, headless-first architecture β and with it, several breaking changes that require hands-on code migr...
Tokenmaxxing: Is Burning More AI Tokens Actually a Sign of Productivity?
Jensen Huang says he'd be "very concerned" if an engineer earning $500,000 a year spent less than $250,000 on AI tokens. Andrej Karpathy says "the name of the game is tokens." Meta's CTO calls hea...
Smart Context System: Give Your AI a Long-Term Memory for Real Projects
The Problem: Your AI Has Amnesia Imagine you just joined a new project. You open Cursor, ask it why a certain tax calculation works the way it does β and it has no idea. It sees the code, but it...
Skill-Based AI Execution: When Prompts Are No Longer Enough
When Prompts Are No Longer Enough There's a specific moment every senior dev hits when working with AI β not when it starts making mistakes, but when you realize you can no longer predict when it w...
Message Queue vs Pub/Sub: Two Patterns, Two Different Jobs
Message queues and pub/sub are frequently treated as interchangeable β two names for the same idea of "sending messages between services asynchronously." In practice, they solve fundamentally dif...